PS3 Remote Play has arrived!

We’ve got some great news on Remote Play. For those who don’t know, Remote Play allows you via a Wi-Fi connection to interact remotely with your PS3, using your PS Vita, and play a selection of compatible games. Today we can announce two fantastic PS3 collections are now available to play remotely on your PS Vita.

First up, God of War Collection, which features the two classic titles God of War and God of War II remastered in HD. And for the video game connoisseurs out there, the amazing ICO and Shadow Of The Colossus Collection is also available, featuring two of the most critically acclaimed games of all time remastered in HD. Both of the above collections have an intuitive new control system where you can choose to have the R2 and L2 buttons mapped to the rear touch pad. And these two titles look fantastic on the 5” OLED screen of your PS Vita and offer some of the very best gaming on PlayStation.

Nothing really, hackers are able to do remote play. Sony will have a roadmap of what functionality they are going to implement and when.

I think what's stopping Sony is quality control they would rather release games that they know will work well with remote play then to have all games go remote by default. The next thing Sony needs is a bunch of people $#@!ing about how the Vita doesn't use remote play well.

Last edited by hood; 09-05-2012 at 14:17.

"I think all those developers who are saying, "We donít want to do a PS3 game," or "Itís really difficult to do it," should shut up and make their games. If you have time to complain about it, then you should be spending your time working on getting the most from the hardware."

I think what's stopping Sony is quality control they would rather release games that they know will work well with remote play then to have all games go remote by default. The next thing Sony needs is a bunch of people $#@!ing about how the Vita doesn't use remote play well.

It will happen. So many variables with Wifi connections, hardware, software, etc... there will undoubtedly be people with a lot of complaints about this feature.

I think it is cool, although at this point i am pretty sure I will never own a Vita.

All systems have issues with software and hardware, it's only natural. The only foreseeable issue I can see with RP though is wifi.

Well there are some issues with backwards compatibility on the PS3 with ps1 and ps2 games and there's issues with compatibility ps1 games on the vita there's bound to be issues with PS3 games running remotely on the vita. If Sony can just start fresh and design games to be compatible with the Vita in my opinion it is a large step in the right direction. With the Wii U and Microsoft's Tablet for the 360 Sony needs to just play it safe. Even with all games being RP capable games prior to the Vita's release won't utilize the Vita. I would like to see more WiFi availability in the US. Your pretty much limited to your house, buying a mobile hotspot, or McDonalds.

"I think all those developers who are saying, "We donít want to do a PS3 game," or "Itís really difficult to do it," should shut up and make their games. If you have time to complain about it, then you should be spending your time working on getting the most from the hardware."

Well there are some issues with backwards compatibility on the PS3 with ps1 and ps2 games and there's issues with compatibility ps1 games on the vita there's bound to be issues with PS3 games running remotely on the vita. If Sony can just start fresh and design games to be compatible with the Vita in my opinion it is a large step in the right direction. With the Wii U and Microsoft's Tablet for the 360 Sony needs to just play it safe. Even with all games being RP capable games prior to the Vita's release won't utilize the Vita. I would like to see more WiFi availability in the US. Your pretty much limited to your house, buying a mobile hotspot, or McDonalds.

It's going to be pretty heavy handed with the actual PS3 games being remote play compatible. The PS2 and PS1 remakes will not have the same overhead needed for remote play. If you go into a hacked PS3 and play Killzone 3, or any of the others PS3 games, it's hit and miss throughout. More like a single base hit, instead of the homerun you'd wanna have. A patch will make them "officially" work, but no more than they work if you're doing it the way I have, as well as others.

Thumbs up for Sony doing this though. It's one of those "homebrew" results we found that Sony likes to get on board with since the PSP was given the chance.

It's going to be pretty heavy handed with the actual PS3 games being remote play compatible. The PS2 and PS1 remakes will not have the same overhead needed for remote play. If you go into a hacked PS3 and play Killzone 3, or any of the others PS3 games, it's hit and miss throughout. More like a single base hit, instead of the homerun you'd wanna have. A patch will make them "officially" work, but no more than they work if you're doing it the way I have, as well as others.

Thumbs up for Sony doing this though. It's one of those "homebrew" results we found that Sony likes to get on board with since the PSP was given the chance.

Well thats kind of what im saying though its not a homerun so what would be the point of playing those older games why not have games that were designed to run with remote play from the ground up. Hack up your ps3 so you can hit or miss or just buy ps3/vita games that are designed to be played that way. Like in the mlb commercial the guy is playing outside walks home puts the vita on a stand and continues the game on ps3. Thats the kind of remote play id like but i have my doubts when it comes down to wifi connectivity. Maybe this cross buy deal will solve that issue lets say you pick up battlefield 4 and get the vita version free. It would be really cool to hit the ps button activate remote play it then links to the vita auto starts bf4 and picks right up where you left off. Probably a dream that may never come true but its nice to think that way. Rp should take full avabtage of both machines and it shouldnt feel tacked on we had enough of that with the psp. let's get innovative sony kojima has this transfarring thing going and its pretty decent its abit of a lengthy process but im sure a more streamlined approach is on the way.

"I think all those developers who are saying, "We donít want to do a PS3 game," or "Itís really difficult to do it," should shut up and make their games. If you have time to complain about it, then you should be spending your time working on getting the most from the hardware."

It might be a dream that is able to be made with the PS4. It has to be something that Sony REQUIRES for all companies to support, otherwise, you'll get firstparty games that they eventually get out. I think it's a definitely great first step. If the remakes that are coded to work on the PS3 basically feel like you actually have them on the Vita during remote play, then mad props for Sony.

Well thats kind of what im saying though its not a homerun so what would be the point of playing those older games why not have games that were designed to run with remote play from the ground up. Hack up your ps3 so you can hit or miss or just buy ps3/vita games that are designed to be played that way. Like in the mlb commercial the guy is playing outside walks home puts the vita on a stand and continues the game on ps3. Thats the kind of remote play id like but i have my doubts when it comes down to wifi connectivity. Maybe this cross buy deal will solve that issue lets say you pick up battlefield 4 and get the vita version free. It would be really cool to hit the ps button activate remote play it then links to the vita auto starts bf4 and picks right up where you left off. Probably a dream that may never come true but its nice to think that way. Rp should take full avabtage of both machines and it shouldnt feel tacked on we had enough of that with the psp. let's get innovative sony kojima has this transfarring thing going and its pretty decent its abit of a lengthy process but im sure a more streamlined approach is on the way.

The games don't seem to need to be designed from the ground up. GoW:C just needed a small patch that maps the R2, L2, R3 and L3 buttons to the Vita. I'm sure there are a few other lil software tweaks but the update was only 30mb IIRC. However, this could be due to something that is somehow unique to ICO and GoW so maybe other games need special attention. I guess time will tell.

As far as your MLB situation, you can ALMOST do that with remote play. The only difference is that you could only "walk home put the Vita on the stand and continue on the PS3" if you had internet tethered on your phone as you went on your way, as you need wifi for the feature, else you could play any remote play supported game where ever you have wifi, then save your game and when you get home you can pick up where you left off on the PS3.

I can tell you, I have checked the remote play feature with GoW and it works $#@!ing great, im thrilled! What's more, if you have your laptop/PC hooked up to the PS3 via PS3 media center, you can browse and watch any movies or music on your computer via wifi. PS3 media center does all the decoding PC and streamed to the PS3 so you can watch a $#@! load of different file types, avi, mkv, I'm pretty sure I tried my Smashing Pumpkins live .vob files and it worked IIRC. Some days I set up a Naruto download in the morning before work, then by break time it would be on my laptop already and I could watch it on my break using works wifi, through the PS3, was boss!. The ability to effectively play games is such a bonus. I'm yet to play the ICO collection so I'm so stoked to have this option.

I don't have an issue exactly, being PS+ all my games will update on their own without my notice.
I just kinda expected a universal remote play, I guess some games would struggle with the aditional load.

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